Apr 28, 2010
Outsmarting a wild boar...
Wild boar is a perpetual problem at our farm. They break through fencing and get at the chickens, they dig up all those lovely yams and sweet potatoes, they damage our vegetable plots digging up earthworms for desert. All kinds of suggestions have been given to us; shoot them, poison them, trap them, etc. We reject outright killing. Trapping, etc never works; they're too wary. Then they played with this beautiful pegaga patch and turned it into a mud-bath: We were too distraught to remember to take a picture of the mud-bath. We rehabilitated the...